Couple Clause

Hello again! Look another blog post. So, if you are here there’s probably a reason and you wanted to know more about my clause. I just copied from my guild website about the clause, so here it is and we are going to break it all down.

In Salvation, we are no strangers to love and there are a good amount of couples that are either together, married or whatever. While I would love to say that in a perfect world, everyone will be happy in love and everyone will get along, we all know that at some point, things happen.

I like to open up with something cute and funny on my rules. I don’t know why, people seem to enjoy it so..

Expectations for our couples in the guild are not any different than we expect from single members. Everyone is to follow all the same rules and if you or your partner cannot handle this, then action can be taken if something was to stir.

Make the above KNOWN. Bold it, slant it, underline it.. anything. Just make sure they grasp this simple concept.

In regards to raiding, every raid member is their own person. Everyone will at one point be pulled aside to be enlightened on their flaws and how to help perfect this. With that said, if you are a couple that takes offense to one being told they are doing wrong or one being told that they need to change something, you have no place in raiding at all. The environment around raiding is all about change and adapting to what is going on. If you cannot handle change or anything like that, you should reconsider your spot in raiding.

Again, something that needs to also be stated.

Any couples caught becoming rude and aggressive over raid leaders or officers chatting to their partners will be dealt with in the following ways:
A) Warned


B) Suspended from the raid 


C) Kicked from the raid

Lay out the punishment order. Doing this will help show people that you are very serious about taking in couples and they are not above the single players out there.

Might be in order, might jump the order, depending on how badly you get offended. I like to say that we are pretty fair about getting on to each other. I know Dard yells at me when I am doing wrong, you guys just don’t get to see it because it is off vent. .. I am not sure I am suppose to smile at that statement. :<

Be a bit personal with this too if you are a leader in a relationship. It helps show people that even you are not above the rules. Also, Dard was my ex’s old character he used to raid with back in WotLK. Oh and also, laying out that punishment helps out for obvious reason, especially when you are dealing with issues on a bigger scale.

Anyways, as said, anything that is said in regards to your performance as a player is not a hit on your relationship or anything, but suppose to be an encouragement to fix what is wrong to better 9 other people in your raid and help you become stronger at your class. If you cannot accept being given criticism, raiding is probably not for you.

I felt it was really important to draw the future applicant to the point of nine other players. Usually if you remind them that it takes other people to make raids a success, they are less inclined to be jerks and actually support the group efficiently.

As side from the raiding, if you and your partner were to experience a sudden break up or an argument that spurred either in game or out of game, in respect to the guild, please leave it out of the guild chat.

Oh god, I love this portion of the clause. Speaks for itself.

Whatever ill feelings anyone brings into the game does transfer over and we would like to continue not to see a blow up happening from heated conversation between couples. If you feel that you are really pissed off and need to blow off some steam, I am here for all of you. Whether it is an ear to yak off, a PvP partner or just someone to go dick around with for a little bit, I am good to hang out. The same would apply to anyone in the guild that is not busy and can help you. Worse come to worse, if you can’t water down your feelings, please step away from the game, go for a walk and clear you head. Like any relationship, communication will be key and doing so with a clear head will stop an irrational choices, words or feelings from spurring.

As a leader of any sorts, you should always be there for your guildies. Especially as the guild leader. You don’t have to get all personal and such, but these people do look up to you and if you can lend an ear or arm, you are going to go far with gaining respect, trust and love from them. Really, it’s awesome. You get a chance to have such a unique relationship with everyone. Just state that you are there for them and leave it at that.

<3

The clause would be incomplete without a heart.

Introducing My Series and Breaking in the Blog.

Hey guys, Venita here.

Do you ever find writing the first post to any blog as the most difficult one? It’s like your first impression to the world! How stressful, yea? I think so because I always want to find the right words to make people drawn into my blog. One day, I shall find those perfect words. For now though, I guess I can explain the hell I’m doing with this blog. It’s simple really.

I play a game called World of Warcraft. I’ve been actively playing since January of 2007, right before the release of Burning Crusade. It has become my hobby and something that I enjoy to do. The people in Warcraft are generally pretty cool, some times nutty but that’s okay! The internet brings us closer to so many different people, yea? For better or worse, ha. Anyways, I got off track easily. So, I have been playing this game and in this game you have the choice of joining a guild or not. You can also make your own guild! However, I wasn’t aware of that and being extremely new to an established game I felt that I wasn’t really in a place to run a guild.

Come to think of it, I don’t know if I would have been able to understand the concept of charters and needing signatures, ect.

So, I became a guildie in a lot of guilds. I jumped servers until I finally found my home. I withhold the name for various reasons, but it’s not a huge deal or secret. Going on, it was on this server that I decided that I was done being a guildie and wanted to try my hand at being a guild leader. I was extremely unprepared to be a guild leader. I didn’t have a clue on what to do, how to handle issues and so on. Hell, picking a name was hard too because you didn’t want a guild that screams you and your friends are assholes or something that makes you guys completely invisible to the crowd. However, over time I came across so many issues, joys and woes from being a guild leader and I like to think I’ve done a pretty damn good job in being one.

That brings us to this blog and my youtube channel. I was really looking for a way to combine a lot of things that I love. That being my filming passion and being a guild leader/avid gamer. Then this idea was born! I did some research first on my idea because I didn’t want to jump into something that maybe a lot of other people were doing. My searches came up empty and I saw that as my green light to press forward!

And forward I went with my idea. Diary of a Guild Leader is going to be my personal views about being a guild leader. I wanted to show gamers maybe another light to their leaders. It’s my goal to get a community involve with this channel and blog to express other viewpoints on handling hot topics, ect.

Well, I think I spoke enough. Mostly because it’s 6:17 AM and I really don’t want to ramble too much in blog. Ha. Here’s a link to the promo video.